To be absolutely honest I always consider this movie as underestimated. Lets put that straight: It isn’t good movie but it also isn’t bad movie as for time it was made (what wasn’t good for cinema overall). I personally love in it how it hit you with f*k up imaginary after you bored you for 3/4. Yes, it could be made better but what I hate in most horrors is that they rush “scary” stuff when here we have decent build up, mystery and pay off. To be honest I’m not sure that gory version really would work, all depend… Read more »

But NC,if Paul W.S. Anderson didn’t rip off alien,we’d be forced to watch HIS IDEAS.
If Resident Evil on Playstation was more well known,this guy would be thought of on the level of Michael Bay or Joel Schumacher for what he did to that franchise

Um… if the interpretation that this was all insanity and hallucination, it sure escaped me – but no, what this movie is “about”, is the ship actually crossing through a hellish dimension.
And no, it’s not “warp”.

Okay, I respect you liked it, but one of the best horror movies? Really? What about Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein, Psycho (1960), The Shining, Halloween, Night of the Living Dead? They’re in the same league as those movies?

Also I forget to mention before: Shining was also underestimated in time of its release, just people catch faster that it is good horror. Though in opposition to Event Horizon it is also good movie, not just horror.

The Shining has nice imagery, but isn’t very scary if you rewatch it. Same for The Thing – once you know its basically a slasher movie with an alien, you are in comfortable territory. I like horror movies which not only have scary scenes, but also a scary *premise*, like: – science can actually open a portal to a place of eternal suffering (Event Horizon) – humanity makes real that which it believes (In the Mouth of Madness) – ambition and desire are gateways to pretty scary things (Hellraiser & Lord of Illusions) – even if the occult is just… Read more »

I don’t know. Like most of the movies you listed, upping the ante from “_____ causes death” to “_____ causes ETERNAL SUFFERING HELL ON EARTH DOUBLE SATAN MEAT GRINDER” doesn’t always make the premise scarier, for some reason. Most of the time, that kind of scale-based overcompensation can make things harder to take seriously.

the Shining is a bad movie. I’m not even trolling here. decent cinematography and a couple innovative ways to be spoopy doesn’t change the fact that it was all a completely pointless ghost flick with its fascinating original plot dumbed down to “haunted hotel kills a bunch of dudes.” also, Nicholson was just plain goofy as hell in a Clown Tim Curry way.

Preach it, brother. I’m with Stephen King on this one: his book was complex and subtle and truly frightening, but also very personal to him; Jack’s character arc was something that mattered a lot to King, and the film screwed it up completely. The author of the book hates the movie, and so do I. It doesn’t capture the novel’s awesomeness in the sllightest. And what is it with the NC and King? The adaptations from King’s novels might suck for the most part (although there are great ones such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Apt Pupil, and… Read more »

Have you tried clicking on the HD button in the bottom right corner and lowering the resolution there? This fixed the problem for me, hope it helps you as well.

And please stop asking that question over and over. If this simple trick doesn’t work, google is your best bet, it’s unlikely that someone here knows a simple fix for it that works with your device and browser.

6:25-7:40 And this is why exposition in the use of dialogue can hurt your movie/video game/TV show. When you establish your characters one way, it makes it look ridiculous that they don’t know this kind of information. They might as well turn to the audience and say “How about we explain to you guys what is going on for the next 10-15 minutes so you don’t get lost, okay?”

Except NC totally misrepresents what the characters are asking and confused about. That entire conversation, was about how the warp drive. A classified top secret project that no one but Sam Neil knows about.

The characters are completely knowledged and competent about normal space travel. The warp drive is not normal space travel.

I think the main reason there is a cult following for the movie is the fact that it borrows from 2 of the more successful horror names/serieses, those being Alien and Hellraiser, it actually does remind me a lot of the scenarios for hellraiser (specifically hellraiser 3) and as you mentioned in your video, the set design was pretty much identical to that of Alien, the combination of the 2 leads to something that could make a fairly good movie if done correctly

Basically what people forget is that “cult” movie isn’t this same as “good movie”. Yes, Event Horizon isn’t particularly good movie, but what should work in it work. That is why it have followers even if it isn’t as good as it should. Until recently I even though that people forget about it like about “Sphere”, but it seem it get recognition.

Does anyone know if this video is on any other websites or if Doug can create his own website for it cause I’ve been loading it all day and it’s been failing? I think I’m about to cry if it doesn’t work. I can’t even pick an option if I could downgrade it!!!! Someone PLZ help and quick?!!!!!

Good video Doug and it really interest me what could have happened if that other movie was made and the studio didn’t make to much cuts. Just think about it it would have been really interesting then what we got maybe he could of did a whole section where that happened and they were just getting tortured but ope cause it’s all about what the studio wants. Let’s hope they release it on bluray in a special edition for it and hey with that goosebumps style opening I feel that your going to do a goosebumps clip less review for… Read more »

There is also allot off fans of the Warhammer 40k franchise that like this movie. The overall sorie seams to show what would happen to a ship if it would went through the warp with it’s warp shields down. Also all the spikes and designs look like something the forces of chaos would make.

And Starship Troopers because it’s Imperial Guard: the Movie
And Dredd because it’s Arbites: the Movie (doubly so since GeeDubya ripped arbites and half the setting straight from 2000 AD comics)
and Pathfinder because it’s WHFB Chaos Marauders: the Movie
and Ultramarines because- wait, no one likes the Ultramarines movie.

Fans of Warhammer 40,000 tend to like this movie. The way hell/FTL travel work in Event Horizon is close enough to the Warp in 40k that we tend to get a good laugh. The usual joke is that this is an early Warp travel test, and mankind just needs to invent the Geller field to avoid all the nasty side effects.

Hi there! Yeah, I don’t get it, either. I saw this movie on one of the first nights that it was out in theaters, and it absolutely terrified me. Seriously! And I am a veteran of horror flicks! Then everybody I told: “You HAVE to see this movie!!” came back to me and said something along the lines of: “That craptacular snooze-fest you told me to go see? I’ll never get those two hours of my life back!”. I don’t get it. I saw a movie that was terrifying. Maybe I saw one of the cuts with all of the… Read more »

The review format changed. It’s been three years. It’s not going anywhere. Get over it. His old style gave him psychological burn-out. And you really wish he’d just grin and bear it? How fucking selfish could you get?

If you’re really, this resistant to change to the point where you’re still whining, then it’s a goddamn mystery that you didn’t kill yourself the moment you hit puberty if change is really so hard for you.

Because it is terrifying and uncut version never surfaced if I recall? And yes, it is basically mix between Hellreaser (in Space) and Allien (without alien), but what work in this movie is that hell stuff don’t come until end of movie and that is why it work better then full exposure. Though it get old pretty fast and that is why people complain about bad CGI, what could be climate killer for some people.

my family owned a DVD of it, and I remember this movie scarring me for life when I watched it
but I also remember it being much more gory than people claim it to be (hell, watching good bad flicks video on it I noticed one of the scenes I most distinctly remember from the movie was amongst the ones mentioned as having been cut or toned down…)

so maybe there ARE two versions of this movie floating around, a neutered version and an actually good one.

I personally think that this movie has a place in the genre that actually doesn’t have that many movies to complete with. Sure, we’ve got Alien, but what else, especially at that time? We don’t, that’s what.

Yeah, but being one of the only members of a specific subgenre doesn’t inherently make something good. And which subgenre are you aiming at? Because there was a hell of a lot better sci-fi horror films such as The Fly, The Thing, Reanimator, etc. Or specifically horror in space? Which I’d then point to a movie that came out like only a year later and is far superior IMO, Pitch Black.

yeah, it’s not the greatest movie out there and some of the elements are derivative, but it does offer an overall unique experience. the fact this movie is so well known is more a demonstration that the horror genre isn’t varied enough.

A tunnel with walls made of circuit boards? A space station where the living modules aren’t connected to anything but support structure? And the captain’s crazy chair? You can tell a LOT of people were on drugs when they were thinking up the design work for this movie. Yeah, they stole a ton from the Alien movies, mostly from the first, third and fourth. This movie may have inspired a few others too, or maybe the structure was around long before and I never noticed it before this one came out. ‘Ghost Ship’ and ‘Virus’ have similar plot elements. And… Read more »

Although unlikely, given that they were produced by different studios, they had overlapping production times so technically it is possible.
I’ll agree with you on this one though. They probably just “borrowed heavily” from the first and third and any similarity with the fourth is just coincidental.

I can’t really blame anyone for wanting to imitate the near-masterpiece that is Alien, but to be honest, Alien itself borrowed heavily from at least two previous sources, a fact which people tend to forget. Not sure why anyone would want to borrow from the third film, though.

I thought the prison looked dirty and disused which made it feel desolate. I could feel that the place had history from its filth, wear and darkness. With no technology to track the alien or effective weapons to fight it with you knew the place would be a killing ground and the prison’s bloody history would only grow. I won’t defend the film as it is my least favorite of the Sigourney Weaver series but it’s not just a worthless cashgrab. It’s not a bad movie, it just isn’t as good as it could have been. It wasn’t the movie… Read more »

There are a few glaring problems with this review. 1) Why does Doug have to present his videos in the form of an argument? This causes Doug to make really dumb sweeping generalizations (such as “everyone thinks Mad Max is a masterpiece except for me!”). I guarantee the amount of people that would consider Event Horizon to be any sort 2) Why all the filler? Do we really need sketches to illustrate every single tiny point? That completely eliminates the point of a witty remark – and instead just blatantly looks like stretched out filler. And at that point it… Read more »

To answer no. 2: Because he HAD to use filler. The amount of pointless gore scenes takes up over half the running time, he wouldn’t have had a whole lot to show, or even comment on. Doug always tries to make his videos about 20-30 minutes long, and it’s pretty obvious this would have been really short because of how little there was to work with. Before I even clicked this and just saw the link I thought “what the fuck is there to even talk about? Like nothing interesting happened in that POS.”

I remember this fucking film because the ads for it were everywhere, and never made it really obvious it was a horror film. I went to go see this with my cousin and we both about shit ourselves (we were like 15, and both of us have an aversion to gore).

Yeah, I went to see it thinking it was more of a straight SF flick than a SF horror movie. Based on the trailers and the title, I went in expecting something along the lines of a better version of The Black Hole. Instead I got sort of an inferior version of Hellraiser IN SPACE. Having said that, the gore itself didn’t bother me, it was more the “inferior” part. Plus the misleading advertising, of course. Having said that, this movie does have a lot in common with The Black Hole in that both have a lot of interesting ideas… Read more »

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